The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Title illustration by John Richard Flanagan in Collier's (1924)
Publication
Publication date1924
Chronology
SeriesThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
 
The Three Garridebs
 
The Three Gables

"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" (1924) is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of the 12 stories collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). It was first published in Collier's in the United States in November 1924, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in two parts, in February and March 1925.